WASHINGTON – Atlantic 10 Conference student-athletes and institutions set a new league record with a 95 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR). The league also was close to the record for number of teams for the second straight year with a perfect 100 percent GSR with 118 programs at the top of the metric in the latest data reported by the NCAA Wednesday.
 
The league-wide 95 percent GSR tops the previous mark of 94 percent first set with the 2019 GSR report and equaled in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and places the A-10 in a tie for third place among all conferences. The 118 perfect programs tied last year’s total and is just below the record mark of 119 set in 2022.
 
Additionally, the A-10 ranked fifth amongst all Division I conferences for the second straight year in the league’s Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) at 73 percent. While the FGR accounts for first-time, full-time freshmen entering in a given fall term while receiving athletically related financial aid, it does not take into account academically eligible student-athletes who transfer into or out of an institution and graduate with their cohort.
 
The Atlantic 10 was ninth in women’s basketball with a 96 percent GSR and two thirds of the conference recording perfect scores (10 of 15). The league was eighth in men's basketball with a 93 percent GSR, supported by six teams with perfect scores. The A-10 also tied for the seventh-highest GSR in baseball with a rate of 95 percent as well as four perfect teams.
 
Richmond had a perfect league-high rate of 100 percent, followed by Fordham at 99 and St. Bonaventure and Saint Louis at 98 percent. Duquesne had an overall GSR of 97 percent. Davidson, Dayton and George Washington all recorded institutional rates of 96 percent to round out the top five rates.
 
Davidson paced the A-10 behind 13 sports with a perfect 100 percent mark, followed by St. Bonaventure with 11 and Richmond with 10. Duquesne, George Mason and Saint Joseph’s had nine perfect programs each. Overall, 13 of the A-10’s 15 member institutions year boast a GSR at or above the national GSR average of 91 percent.
 
Women's tennis represented the highest number of perfect teams among all A-10 sports, with 12 schools earning perfect scores. There were 10 programs in women’s basketball, women's soccer and men’s golf that were perfect, along with nine in women’s swimming & diving.
 
The GSR measures graduation over six years from first-time college enrollment. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors created the GSR in response to Division I college and university presidents who wanted data that more accurately reflected the mobility of college students than the federal graduation rate.